IH's interface has gotten worse.
IH's interface has gotten worse. Now it's loading the thin posts, then after theyre done it switches to the fat posts. So annoying.
IH's interface has gotten worse. Now it's loading the thin posts, then after theyre done it switches to the fat posts. So annoying.
seems to have been fixed. Thanks for the hard work @csallen
Sounds like a bug. You should only ever see the view you last selected, and it shouldn't change after loading. Is this happening for you consistently? Is it when you're switching tabs, or when you first load the site?
it's still doing it. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CzYQAcozyGzRxIBjtLoNN8-wJ_REZPli
if you wanna see whats happening
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From what I can tell, the UI here on IH is in a constant state of flux. I would rather see constant experimentation, vs nothing at all.
Some constructive criticism from my perspective, in case the powers at be are reading this:
Modals work great for consuming short bits of information, but are not ideal for reading larges pieces of content. Content aside, interacting inside of a modal provides a less than stellar user experience, not to mention the engineering side of things having to always operate in the context of modal callbacks.t
While they may give the false impression of providing a fluid user experience when browsing between index and the post, I've always found these types of things better on their own specific pages.
There are quite a few kinks with the new design, but I'll fix them and continue to improve things over time in response to feedback like this. Some of it is experimental and potentially temporary, too, e.g. not having titles.
Mind sharing a few more specifics about why you don't like reading and interacting with these posts inside a modal? Is it only the longer posts, or the short ones, too?
I feel similarly on a lot of sites. I tried to minimize the effect of these modals on IH, so you don't get the feeling that you're in some fragile, temporary state. (Although I may have gone too far there, as some have requested making it easier to close the modals by clicking off of them.)
Long form content in small modals is like seeing 30 people jump out of a tiny van. They would be much more comfortable on a bus.
For my day job, for the last 5 years I've managed (and originally build) a pretty large SaaS LMS (https://cgcookie.com). We have courses, with lessons. The course can have questions. Through the years based on my own experience, and based on users feedback, the UX has shifted away from using modals for the question and answer system, and back to using standalone pages.
The original thinking (maybe similar to yours) is that by opening this in a modal, it would not take the user away from what they were doing, and results in less clicks. This makes sense in lot of cases:
But at least in our case, it offered a better experience to have the questions and answers on its own page, with a link back to the main content in question. And the number of clicks are the same no matter if using a modal, or a separate page.
Anyways, probably TMI but maybe you can extract some helpful parts out of that.
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It's inevitable that you have to split out the top posts from the rest, otherwise the feed will become a complete blur as the site grows. Imagine, for example, a million people all making posts and hoping that all other million people see it. Not possible. Even in the old view, the vast majority of posts fell off the front page with no comments or upvotes after only being seen by a handful of people. That's just the way the math works out.
The new IH goes a long way toward fixing that. We don't do the winner-take-all strategy that you see on HN or the old IH. When a post gets lots of upvotes, we no longer stick it to the top of the homepage forever. Rather, it will fall down at the same speed as everything else, so other posts get their chance, too. The goal is to spread the attention around.
In fact, my long-term view on this is that the only way to maximize the % of posts that get attention is to break the site into silos of some sort. Think of Reddit and its subreddits. Probably fewer than 1 in 10,000 posts make the Reddit homepage. That would be disastrous if there were no subs. However, each sub acts as its own homepage to some degree, thereby spreading around the attention. That's the plan for IH, too.
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100% agreed. I want as many people to get responses and have discussions as possible! Always welcome to hear ideas on how to do that, because it's not an easy problem to solve.